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About Me:
Seattle, WA www.rofldrone.com www.jimphoenix.com
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Bult a quadrotor with autopilot. Now building a small UAV. See www.rofldrone.com
Hometown:
Bonney Lake, WA
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"I'm in the US, so I bought a 3300 mAh battery from tower hobbies and a good quality lipo charger, plenty of different brands, but just find a good one that is readily available, I ordered from amazon because I'm in Seattle and it was at the house…"
"I'm pleased with my 7 ch futaba. Has all I need for the Arducopter and more than I need for my uav. It's been very reliable.
Jim
Www.rofldrone.com"
Jim
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"I meant APM 2.2.1."
"Is camera stabilization enabled in APM 2.1.1 - for airplanes?
Jim"
Jim"
Interesting article here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-news-corp-drones,0... search the Chicago Tribune business section if the link fails. Jim
"Geoff, you can see the build process for the Rofldrone UAV fuselage in this post: http://www.rofldrone.com/?p=24
Jim"
Jim"
"@Michael - If anyone can do it, Honeywell/Ratheon can! I use their products extensively on my old boat.
I have a Raytheon GPS/radar chartplotter integrated into my VHF com using a nmea string, soon I'll have the marine version of ADS-B (AIS). The…"
I have a Raytheon GPS/radar chartplotter integrated into my VHF com using a nmea string, soon I'll have the marine version of ADS-B (AIS). The…"
"I'm thinking there's a big opportunity here for people with electronics skills to fix Falcone's problems - and many more to come as we squeeze the spectrum - and maybe expand it out of the radio bands and into the light bands? I know guys who are…"
"I was working in Europe when FM immunity became a rule that we were required to comply with to protect aircraft VHF radios from FM signal creep (for lack of a better technical description). Then later, we went to .25mHz channel spacing (in the US as…"
"I had the same problem last night, using a spare APM with ADC 2.0.037 loaded, I loaded HIL sim code into it with the MP and the code loaded in OK, but then the planner (1.0.47) just hung when I clicked setup. I was able to connect X-plane running on…"
"http://www.globalplastics.ca/ I got a 3.5" clear camera dome from them for my ROFLdrone:
Www.rofldrone.com"
Www.rofldrone.com"
"The vertical tape on the right is altitude. The bar on the left is ground speed, (maybe airspeed - not sure which) but groundspeed is the speed that is aurally announced, so I presume the tape is groundspeed.
The green bar that moves up and down…"
The green bar that moves up and down…"
"In the middle of all the alt hold issues, had a magnetometer failure, removed it, cleaned it up and re-installed and now its working fine. The key to this APM stuff is reading all of the manuals, posts, blogs and other data and then trying stuff…"
"Yup, mounted my sonar on an arm last week, didn't see improvement - but I've not had sonar problems before loading 2.0.037. Haven't done the shielded wire yet. I'm seeing funny noise on the baro in test, sonar looks very steady, but baro is very…"
"Planner loaded 2.0.38 for me at 1600 pacific time today."
"Right, your videos show excellent performance, I'm seeing really good response in loiter with no overshoots, just gotta sort the alt hold, I'm convinced it's something in my configuration, maybe a sense problem, gonna swap imu boards and fly it…"
